Christ Blessing Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. ( x cm). Previously known only through a nineteenth-century engraving, this panel was discovered at a country auction in Dorset, England, in March 2000. Scholars then identified the panel as the missing pinnacle of Nardo di Cione’s altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparata, and John the Evangelist, on view nearby. As the pinnacle to the larger panel, Christ Blessing would have been located direc
Christ Blessing Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343-1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. ( x cm). Previously known only through a nineteenth-century engraving, this panel was discovered at a country auction in Dorset, England, in March 2000. Scholars then identified the panel as the missing pinnacle of Nardo di Cione’s altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparata, and John the Evangelist, on view nearby. As the pinnacle to the larger panel, Christ Blessing would have been located directly above Madonna and Child with Saints. European Art mid 14th century
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